Nuria Laherrán Cantera, a native of Valladolid, earned her medical degree from Universidad Francisco de Vitoria (Madrid), where she first embraced an international perspective by volunteering in the Surgery and Emergency Department at Cape Coast Teaching Hospital (Ghana) and completing an Internal Medicine observership at Holy Cross Hospital (Fort Lauderdale, USA) during the summer of 2017.

From 2021 to 2025, she trained as a Psychiatry trainee at University Hospital Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz, following the path of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and undertaking external rotations at renowned international centers such as Orygen Youth Health (Melbourne) and clinical placements in the Neuropsychiatry Unit of the Royal Melbourne Hospital, as well as a period in the Dual Pathology Unit at Hospital Dr. Negrín (Gran Canaria).

Alongside her clinical work, Nuria has enhanced her expertise with diplomas in Affective Disorders (Universidad de Alcalá de Henares) and Clinical Research Methodology (Grupo CTO). She has delivered over thirty presentations at national and international conferences, including as a speaker at the American Psychiatric Association (APA) Annual Meeting in New York (2024) and has been recognised in multiple scientific competitions.

She is currently pursuing a PhD at Universidad de Alcalá de Henares under the supervision of Dr. Guillermo Lahera, investigating the sequence of therapeutic response in psychosis through assessments of cold, social, and hot cognition. She combines this research with her work in the EM-16 Group at INIBICA and as a clinical tutor for medical students at the University of Cádiz. Since 2024, she has coordinated European Relations and served as Secretary of the Spanish Society of Psychiatry Residents (SERP). Her commitment focuses on youth mental health and early prevention as essential strategies to reduce suffering in vulnerable populations.